SBIR/STTR Research Award
81mm Mortar Guidance Package
Award amount
$1,080,148Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Special Operations Command
- Recipient company
- OPTO-KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-09-26
- Contract end date
- 2021-09-24
- UEI
- RJH6GQUD3BT5
- Solicitation number
- 18.2
- Topic code
- SOCOM182-001
Research abstract
OKSI will design and build a Precision Guidance Seeker (PGS) for the 81 mm munition. We will enhance and port our target acquisition and tracking algorithms to a real-time processor onboard the PGS, which will receive target-scene imagery prior to launch or while in flight and will deploy post apogee. OKSI will test the algorithms extensively with a wide range of military-relevant real-world data supplemented by M&S data and put the PGS through SWIL testing as well. Guidance and Control (G&C) remains based on existing operationally similar technology with the air-to-ground rockets and concurrently developed capabilities for artillery shells. We expect the PGS to cost less than the currently deployed competing active guidance systems. We will deliver seeker prototypes as an outcome of this effort.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- CAS sensor for ISRU propellant production
- Threat Detection from Space in the UV-IR (TD-UVIR).
- A Generalized Mobile Target Tracking (MTT) Solution for Loitering Munitions
- Optical probe for static pressure measurements in vitiated flows for ground test facilities
- In-line, real-time gas sensor utilizing a novel, multi-modal spectroscopy concept
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- 81mm Mortar Optical Guidance System
- Munition Guidance Package for Use in a GPS and Laser Denied Environment
- Guidance System for Autonomous Medium Caliber Munition
- SWIR Imaging for Accurate Targeting of 40 mm Grenades and Small Rockets
Research funding history
180 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2025). Reported award amounts total $90,018,148. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce